It’s that time of year when the dreaded ‘C’ word steps into the public consciousness: Christmas. From a cynical perspective in the world today, Christmas entails only one thing: spending money. In other words, shopping for Christmas presents. A sometimes painful process of trawling through overcrowded shops and encountering a melee of irritable Christmas consumers, it’s important to know where to go to find all the best outlets.

With the recent stylishly developed Cabot Circus shopping centre, there are now more places to find what you’re looking for than ever before such as the House of Fraser and Harvey Nicholls department stores.